For anyone who cares about the decline of print media, The Devil Wears Prada 2 was a disaster movie. I'm not really a fashion magazine person (shocker!) but I appreciate the artistry and collaboration involved in putting together something as culturally significant as Vogue, or whatever the fictional version is called in the movie, i can't remember. The way the real world magazine industry was completely hollowed out between DWP1 (2006) and DWP2 (2026) is legit upsetting. I'v

I've been fortunate to have worked on and off in animation for the past two decades. I consider myself especially fortunate as someone who A) grew up without a TV in the house and B) has very little talent in the visual arts. Would I compare my animation career to the tenacity of Beethoven overcoming profound hearing loss to compose his most famous symphonies? Yes, he and I are basically the same. My animation career arc is on my mind because Mating Season arrives on Netflix

Last week my friend Joe Wengert's show Kevin debuted on Prime Video. It's a very funny animated show about a cat who breaks up with his owners and goes to live at a pet rescue in his neighborhood of Astoria, Queens. After a very brief stint in Williamsburg after graduating college, I lived in Astoria for the remainder of my tenure as a New Yorker. I loved the neighborhood, it was convenient to all the things we wanted to do in Manhattan, but moved at a slower pace and had/has